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Example sentences for: dire

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Despite the controversy, most agree that the large predators, particularly sharks, skates, rays, and marlin, are in the most dire straits.
"Ulster talks in dire trouble" was the Guardian 's front-page headline.
While AILA has joined the ACLU and other organizations in a Freedom of Information Act request to find out who is being detained where and why, Mohammed notes that the reasons for the immigrants' detention were not immediately clear and sometimes had dire consequences.
If the order was disturbed, dire consequences inevitably resulted.
The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times lead with dire economic assessments from President Boris Yeltsin and Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko, while the Washington Post takes on Russia wannabe Belarus.